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Shopping in Northern Ireland
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just back from a shoppin trip up north, went to forestside(sainsburys), westwood(asda), bow street in lisburn and the quays on the way home.
Sainsburys were doing 0.89p to the euro but asda were only doing 0.82! so obviously paid euro in sainsburys and by laser(maestro) in asda.
I'd avoid sainsburys newry, place was destroyed by closing today, god only knows what it'll be like tmmrw. well worth goin the extra few miles to belfast, forestside is a great shopping centre.
asda in westwood had coores and miller for £8 with harp tennants bud carlsburg and stella on pallets too. not as nice as sainsburys for shopping but thats just my opinion.
anyway this thread saved me a fortune today so big thanks for all the info
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Hi Sudo,
Glad to hear you made it up and down in one piece. Hope you enjoyed a hassle free shop in mid-ulster. Makes the slightly longer journey worth it!!
Yup, great day out.... next time might travel without the kids tho... too much travelling for them.
Saved all the receipts for comparison, but out of a €900 shop - we deffo saved a packet... dont know how much exactly, but on drink alone I imagine we saved well over €100.
Once Christmas is over, will prob go the Newry route again, the trek via the N2 seemed to drag on (got stuck behind trucks, tractors, roadworks etc)... Was driving an MPV, so the ability to overtake at a whim isnt possible.
But thanks for the advice, deffo the no-hassle route.... nice to see a part of the country we never saw before too
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Your too far away
The nearer you live to the border, the more benefit it is. Cars usually do 9miles a litre so doing a bit of sums at 160mi each way, you need 35 litres of petrol which is about 35euro down here.
So basically, if you save more than 35euro, your saving. The more you buy for lets say the month, the more you save.
I'd second what sudi said. I bought 22 packets of frozen/fridge stuff and they were still cold in my cool bags by the time i got back to dublin at 8pm(bought items at 1pm). Cold weather helps as well
Agree, it might not be worth unless you have a store room and buying 2 months stock, However, I am so bore with my local shopping and i am going to north for the last 5 years and suddenly this thread is rushing like "taxes"....
If you are also bored and wants some new look, my advise
is:
book a b&b near belfast and enjoy couple of days, you will surely save worth B&b bills and dinner/lunch expenses,0 -
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Started at 13:00 passed Newry at 13:45 no traffic jam
Straight to WESTWOOD Asda, not many south reg cars, only spotted 0 of them among approx 300.
Misus went there to buy cloths for kids but said Penneys has more choice and cheaper too ..... (May be for kids, she has a different formula...maybe beacude Kids grow up every month and no point buying Euro50 jeans for them for 1 month)
Anyway, was there on wednesday and reported 5p difference between Asda on Sainsbury on Kingfisher beer:eek::eek::eek: today it was pricing same Stg.1.98, spend one hour and saw next trolley buying 3 box of stella, 2 box of coorslight and approx 20 bottle of Bacardi and no issue of limitations (so earlier post of limiting a per customer is no more in question)..another person was buying a trolley full of booze ..both customer were from south as we almost left at the samle time. Stella box was for stg 8 as offer
Left for Sprucefield sainsbury and was a bit quite. good number of south reg car and plenty of whiskey/rum and other beers but no Corona...
and found same kind of difference, we only spent stg 100
but we are so fedup with Tesco that kids almost find this a picnic and a different atmosphere,
If you want to buy a good TV, you can easiliy 500 to 600 euro on a good TV.
Rgds
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one thing tho i would say to any one who might be a nervous driver there is practically no street lights on the drive out i found it a very very dark place to drive home from other than that a great trip.
Yeh, tis mad
It tends to be pitch black with indequate cats eyes till about Drogheda, quite dangerous if you dont have your eye on the road 0 -
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Was in Strabane Asda this morning at 8am. It was pretty quiet with about 4 or 5 cars in the carpark.
When we were leaving near 12, the car park was getting very near full. Also, didn't realise there was an Argos Extra across the road. Nintendo DS was £99 there, compared to €149 in Argos this side of the border.
Loaded up on booze and then back in for general groceries.
Best bargains, IMO, was
15x Carlsberg/Carling/Strongbow/etc 44cl cans: £8
20x Coors Light 275ml bottles: £8
Pringles tube: £0.71
Tropicana: £0.98 (a LOT more expensive here)
Braun Oral-B electric toothbrush £9.79
Box of 40 tumble dryer sheets £0.94
Gah, I could go on and on and Ariston...
I only went for copious amounts of cheap alcohol, the standard groceries were an added bonus! 0
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